Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>> also, i'd be happy to listen opinions from people who have experience
>> of usage of such things like soundex.
I'm using metaphone() together with levenshtein() to search a place name
gazetteer database and order the results. That works reasonably well and
gives interestin
Have a look at contrib/pg_trgm
Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
hello.
does anybody know any solutions to the problem of searching
words/phrases, which are close to each other by sounding? e.g. soundex
index or smth.
problem I have: tag suggestion mechanism, similar to google suggest,
which is inten
>> also, i'd be happy to listen opinions from people who have experience
> of usage
>> of such things like soundex.
>
>
> Soundex is grossly outdated. It was designed for manual use by 19th century
> census takers, and I'm always surprised to see it still used. Metaphone
> (google search gets goo
> also, i'd be happy to listen opinions from people who have experience
of usage
> of such things like soundex.
Soundex is grossly outdated. It was designed for manual use by 19th century
census takers, and I'm always surprised to see it still used. Metaphone
(google search gets good results) doe
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:28:12AM -0700, Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
> hello.
>
> does anybody know any solutions to the problem of searching
> words/phrases, which are close to each other by sounding? e.g. soundex
> index or smth.
Check out contrib/fuzzystrmatch. It has a number of such algorith
hello.
does anybody know any solutions to the problem of searching
words/phrases, which are close to each other by sounding? e.g. soundex
index or smth.
problem I have: tag suggestion mechanism, similar to google suggest,
which is intended to suggest names of people (search field "person's
name"
